‘Star Trek’ Reboot From Noah Hawley Is Now On Hold
By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 7, 2020 1:36 pm EST
Okay, let’s break this down before it gets too complicated. Paramount owns Star Trek, and Star Trek is a huge moneymaker. The film franchise was rebooted with J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, and continued with Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond. Beyond wasn’t exactly a big hit, but Paramount has no intention of letting the franchise go. There were plans for a fourth film that would bring back the reboot cast, along with Chris Hemsworth, who appeared in the first Abrams film as the father of Chris Pine’s James T. Kirk. The plot would involve time travel and Kirk reuniting with his long-dead father.
However, that project fell apart due to reports that both Pine and Hemsworth wanted too much money. Hemsworth later said another reason he walked was that he wasn’t happy with the script. Meanwhile, while plans for Star Trek 4 had stalled, Quentin Tarantino threw his hat into the ring. Tarantino came up with an idea for his own Star Trek movie – an idea that Paramount liked so much they wanted to make it happen. The Revenant screenwriter Mark L. Smith was tapped to pen the screenplay, with the assumption that Tarantino would direct – but Tarantino has since walked away from the project. However, Smith’s script still exists.
